Tia-Monique Uzor

Lecturer

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Speaker Biography

Dr Tia-Monique is a lecturer in Contemporary Caribbean and African Diasporic Dance and Performance. As an artist-scholar, she critically engages Africanist dance as a vehicle for creating and interrogating African and African Diasporic worlds through interdisciplinary approaches and embodied research. Her current practice is interested in exploring the intersections of ecological and social injustice experienced across Black geographies through digital performance. For this, she has been awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the Digital Black Dance Ecologies project. In 2022, she produced, directed, and choreographed the short dance film The Noise My Leaves Make, which has been showcased at festivals worldwide and has received multiple awards and accolades. For the past four years, Tia-Monique has focused on dance data projects, including Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry(2018-2022), which received the ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Theatre and Performance Scholarship. Her paper out of this research Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham was awarded the DramaHE/TaPRA Lynette Goddard Award for Research Excellence. She was a project team member on Radical Accounting: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Data as a Framework for Historical Imagination (February 2025), a dance data commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art featured in the Edges of Ailey exhibition .

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